{"id":129,"date":"2010-09-12T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"simple-wooden-puzzle-plans-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/09\/simple-wooden-puzzle-plans-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Wooden Puzzle &#8211; Plans &#038; Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-130\" title=\"wooden-puzzle-cross-3-pieces\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wooden-puzzle-cross-3-pieces.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"185\" \/>I remember making this puzzle in woodwork class in secondary school. I&#8217;m not sure what the name of this puzzle is, but from a quick Internet search, it seems to be called &#8220;the cross&#8221;. It was a good project to practice the following skills:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marking Out (Note the face side &amp; face edge marks)<\/li>\n<li>Mortise and Tenon Joints (using a mortise gauge)<\/li>\n<li>Creating Chamfers (making a &#8220;thumb gauge&#8221; and putting chamfers on end grain)<\/li>\n<li>Sawing of Timber (scoring cutting lines for a cleaner cut)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Marked-Out-Wooden-Puzzle-3-Piece-Cross.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132 alignright\" title=\"wooden-puzzle-cross-3-pieces-plans\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/wooden-puzzle-cross-3-pieces-plans.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe made the puzzle out of white deal pine (low cost, and difficult to cut cleanly). Three coats of varnish\/lacquer helped the puzzle resist damage to its surface, especially with all the assembling and disassembling. In case anyone would like to make this puzzle, here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Marked-Out-Wooden-Puzzle-3-Piece-Cross.pdf\">plans in PDF format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After I had the 3 pieces made, putting the puzzle together was actually more difficult than I thought. Trying to form the cross shape was tricky, trying to put together the 3 pieces in all possible combinations. Taking the puzzle apart was easy enough. Anyways to help, I made a video of how to disassemble and assemble the puzzle (maybe try it first before resorting to the video solution).<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wSD9I1ltU_c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wSD9I1ltU_c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sgthecross.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-142\" title=\"sgthecross\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sgthecross.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"109\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>Looking around the Internet there are loads of websites showing different puzzles. I came across a variant of the above with rounded edges, however this would be very tricky to shape using hand tools and would require a router.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a simple puzzle to figure out, it really is a good woodwork project to get students interested, and covers some excellent marking-out and hand\u00a0skills. In case anyone is interested, I modeled this up quickly using SolidWorks, created the drawings (pdf),\u00a0rendering (top right) and animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember making this puzzle in woodwork class in secondary school. I&#8217;m not sure what the name of this puzzle is, but from a quick Internet search, it seems to be called &#8220;the cross&#8221;. It was a good project to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/09\/simple-wooden-puzzle-plans-instructions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,28],"tags":[33,31,34,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}